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Toward Component-Oriented Formal Software Development: An Algebraic Approach

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Component based design and development of software is one of the most challenging issues in software engineering. In this paper, we adopt a somewhat simplified view of software components and discuss how they can be conveniently modelled in a framework that provides a modular approach to formal software development by means of stepwise refinement. In particular we take into account an observational interpretation of requirements specifications and study its impact on the definition of the semantics of specifications of (parametrized) components. Our study is carried out in the context of Casl architectural specifications.

This work has been partially supported by KBN grant 7T11C 002 21 and European AGILE project IST-2001-32747 (AT), CNRS–PAS Research Cooperation Programme (MB, AT), and British–Polish Research Partnership Programme (DS, AT).

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  1. Laboratoire Spécification et Vérification, CNRS & ENS de Cachan, France

    Michel Bidoit

  2. Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, UK

    Donald Sannella

  3. Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University and Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Andrzej Tarlecki

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany

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  2. Institut für Informatik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München,  

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  3. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Via Torino 155, 30172, Venezia Mestre, Italy

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Bidoit, M., Sannella, D., Tarlecki, A. (2004). Toward Component-Oriented Formal Software Development: An Algebraic Approach. In: Wirsing, M., Knapp, A., Balsamo, S. (eds) Radical Innovations of Software and Systems Engineering in the Future. RISSEF 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2941. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24626-8_5

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